Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
Slawa Olhovchenkov <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.current |
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On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 08:38:20PM +0200, Jan Beich wrote: > Slawa Olhovchenkov <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:58:10PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote: > > > >> [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11@. Please respect > >> reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11@. Thanks! ] > >> > >> > >> Hi! > >> I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from > >> FreeBSD. I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and > >> removed from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently. Some > >> background and rationale: > >> > >> The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD. It > >> was done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and > >> later extended by Jean-Sébastien Pédron as well as Konstantin to match > >> what's in Linux 3.8. This included unstable support from Haswell, but > >> nothing newer than that. > >> > >> For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and > >> graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel > >> graphics cards. These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has > > > > What about old graphics card? I am have notebook w/ i945 chipset, is > > this supported by graphics/drm-*? > > > > And what about nvidia? > > (sorry, I am not developer this drivers, I am just user, I am don't > > know what need for nvidia work etc) > > NVIDIA dropped 32bit driver since 396.* series. None of x11/nvidia-driver* > currently depend on either drm.ko or drm2.ko. However, Linux driver > appears to depend on DRM/KMS since 364.12. Some of my hardware supported only by nvidia 340.106. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"